Donald Trump took on US and international media Wednesday (Jan 11) in a testy press conference, his first since winning the presidential election on Nov 8.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Tuesday they are working with international law enforcement agencies to investigate companies associated with Malaysia’s scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund.
Eight local fishermen have been found shot dead in their boat off the piracy-plagued southern Philippines, the military said Tuesday.
American children’s television network Nickelodeon has announced it will build an underwater resort and theme park on an island known as the Philippines’ last ecological frontier, alarming environmentalists.
A man suspected of trying to force his way into a Turkish police station in a city near the Syrian border was shot dead on Tuesday (Jan 10) as his accomplices fled, Turkish media reported.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday (Jan 10) named Ms Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister, replacing Mr Stephane Dion, a critic of US President-elect Donald Trump, in a Cabinet shakeup.
US spy chiefs have informed Donald Trump that Russian operatives claim to possess deeply compromising personal and financial information about him, US media reported on the eve of the president-elect's first press conference.
A cold snap gripping Europe has killed 10 more people in Poland, stranded thousands in snow-covered Turkey and brought fresh misery for both migrants and the homeless.
Draped in dazzling kimonos, thousands of expensively made-up young Japanese women marked their entry into adulthood on Monday – with many planning a night on the booze to celebrate.
President Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency on Tuesday US time (Wednesday Jan 11, Singapore time), with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters felled by Mr Donald Trump's shock victory.
Venezuelan opposition lawmakers sought to trigger early elections by passing a key censure motion against President Nicolas Maduro, who is ruling over a national economic crisis and consequent food shortages.
Iran began three days of mourning Monday after the death of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the Islamic revolution who became a leading counterweight to hardliners.
Turkey's parliament on Monday began debating a controversial new draft constitution aimed at expanding the powers of the presidency under Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
French police on Monday arrested 17 people, most of them with records for organised crime, over the robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris last October, police sources said.
Om Puri, the acclaimed Indian actor who appeared in hit films including Gandhi, City of Joy and East is East, died on Friday.
A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said.
Barack Obama travels to Chicago for his farewell speech on Tuesday (Jan 10), returning to the town where his meteoric rise to become America's first black president all began.
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